Alex, your comment of 'pose the reader a question' was great advice, as was everyone else's! The quick response was awesome! I suppose my problem is simple is the story about my character or about her actions in the story? It is a question I'll have to ponder. Being such a baby writer, perhaps...
Is it always more interesting to start the story when the action starts? Even if the character development begins far before that? I'm trying not to be one of those writers who has 200 pages of mundane story before they get to the meat of the matter, simply because I find my own characters...